The drake thinks for thirty thousand nodes, under two seconds on the host it shares

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CCLa2PaEeCj8njQZSWGqHx

src/lib/game/bot.ts

@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ import {
 	frozen, kindOf, levelOf, rankOf, fileOf, movesFrom, other, playOn, sideOf, inCheck, legalMoves
 } from './board';
 
-/** Nodes a move may cost. Around a second on a small server. */
-export const NODE_BUDGET = 80_000;
+/** Nodes a move may cost: under two seconds on the one-core host, a fifth of that on a laptop. The server waits on it. */
+export const NODE_BUDGET = 30_000;
 const MAX_DEPTH = 8;
 const QUIESCE_DEPTH = 4;
 const MATE = 100_000;